>>63921516 (OP)
Sending people I care about away to safety while I face down a hit squad, promised them I'll join them as soon as I can escape but we both knew that was a lie. Picking them off one by one, they never had a chance and they never even knew it. But I'd already come to the understanding that I am too far gone. Too misanthropic, too prideful, too scared to earnestly try and be happy only to have it fail and expose my innermost pure and innocent feelings as laughably naive.
I find the last attacker scared, hiding in the corner. Just barely 18 by my guess. Begs me not to kill him. Gun is shaking in his hands so much he's more likely to blow his own brains out. I grab the top of the slide and tell him to hold it steady so he doesn't fuck it up and help him aim it closer up to my heart. Don't want this to take too long and as much as it pains me to admit, I'm a bit scared of the pain. The gunshot feels hotter than I expected but the adrenaline is taking the worst of it.
I tell him he did good, but he isnt cut out for this life. Use the money from whatever bounty got put on me to get out of here and don't waste your ambition. He stumbles out in disbelief. No one is ever gonna believe his story. Blood loss getting worse now, I just need to rest a bit against the wall. Pull out my wallet and find the photo of my dog who died 25 years ago. I want the last thing I see in this world to be the one thing who truly loved and understood me. I'm not much for praying or religion but if there's an afterlife I only hope he's there waiting for a long walk with me again.
